Apple has suffered another embarrassment from it’s closest network provider AT&T in the US as a security breach has exposed iPad owners addresses including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. Anyone that has had their details lifted from AT&T could be subject to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
The breach includes the most exclusive email list on the planet which holds a collection of early iPad 3G adopter subscribers including CEO’s and other people in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, including but not limited to the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have all had their details compromised.
The total is believed to be around 114,000 that have been compromised along with confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed.
AT&T have closed the security hole, however the victims of the security hole were unaware of this security hole. The information that was exposed by the 114,000 customers were their email addresses and the ICC-ID (associated ID to authenticate the subscriber on AT&T’s network) to identify SIM cards with a subscriber.
How did the breach surface?
Goatse Security obtained the above data through a script created on the AT&T website. Goatse Security wrote a PHP script to automate the harvesting of the data from the AT&T Website, the script was also shared with third parties prior to AT&T closing the security hole, it’s entirely possible that the data has fallen into unscrupulous hands and many more than 114,000 customers are likely to be affected.
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